Ulzeraide Plus | Horse Digestive Supplement for Stomach & Hindgut Support

Ulzeraide Plus is a premium daily horse digestive supplement formulated to protect the gastrointestinal tract from stomach to hindgut and manage the harmful effects of feed-borne mycotoxins.

This dual-action gut support formula aids horse owners managing equine gastric ulcer risks, hindgut acidosis, and pasture-driven digestive imbalances without altering natural stomach acid production.

Your horse's gut health affects far more than digestion. Digestive imbalance can contribute to stomach and hindgut discomfort, increased ulcer risk, and changes in behaviour, comfort and performance.

If your horse suddenly feels tense, girthy, reactive or just "not quite themselves," it may not be attitude.

It may be stomach discomfort.

As the seasons change and grass starts growing rapidly, sugar levels and plant compounds in pasture can disrupt your horse's gut balance. This internal stress can affect the gastrointestinal system and digestive comfort, particularly during periods of travel, competition, stabling, seasonal pasture changes and other everyday challenges.

Ulzeraide Plus is formulated to support the gastrointestinal system from stomach to hindgut, helping maintain digestive comfort so touch becomes comfortable again, saddling isn't a battle, and your horse can relax into their work.

Because gastric ulcers are more common than many horse owners realise.

Studies suggest that up to 50–60% of horses may experience gastric ulcers at some point in their lives—including pleasure horses.

Many horses show subtle signs long before the problem becomes obvious.

Is Your Horse Showing These Signs?

They may need daily digestive support.

🚨 Reacts to saddling or rug changes even when the fit is correct

🚨 Girthy or sensitive during grooming

🚨 Suddenly resistant to bending or going forward

🚨 Increased irritability, tension, bucking or spooking

🚨 Struggles to hold adjustments or feels sore after bodywork

🚨 Soreness through the withers, flank, lumbar region or last rib

🚨 Bloated appearance or signs of gut discomfort

🚨 Reduced appetite or walking away from meals

🚨 Unexplained weight loss or poor condition

🚨 Repeated mild colic episodes

These aren’t “just quirks.”

They’re often early signs of gastric or hindgut discomfort.

Preventative Care: Managing Equine Gastric Ulcer Risks Naturally

 

• • Provide Continuous Forage: Keep premium hay or pasture available continuously so your horse's stomach is never left empty. Constant chewing stimulates saliva production, which acts as nature’s primary acid neutraliser. 
  • Feed Alfalfa Prior to Exercise: Administering a small flake of alfalfa (lucerne) 20 to 30 minutes before working your horse creates a structural "forage mat" inside the stomach. This physical barrier stops corrosive stomach acid from splashing onto the sensitive upper squamous lining during movement.
  • Incorporate Daily Mycotoxin Management: "Utilizing a daily mycotoxin binder helps trap fed-borne toxins before they can compromise hindgut integrity and induce internal stress."
  • Reduce High-Starch Grain Feeds: Replace large, starchy grain concentrates with highly digestible fiber sources to avoid souring the stomach environment and disrupting delicate hindgut bacteria. 
  • Maximise Turnout and Companion Time: Minimise prolonged stall confinement by offering maximum turnout alongside compatible herd mates. Movement and social interaction lower cortisol levels, reducing stress-induced glandular ulcers.
  • Extend Grazing Time with Slow Feeders: When free-choice pasture must be restricted to prevent weight gain, utilize slow-feed hay nets. This extends physical chewing time, keeping the stomach content regulated without over-supplying calories.

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Technical Ingredient Deep-Dives

🌾 Prebiotic Support & Fenugreek (Healthy Gut Microbes)

• • Boosts Beneficial Bacteria: Encourages growth of helpful microbes like Lactobacillus and Bifidobacteria, supporting digestion and gut stability. 
  • Improves Nutrient Absorption: A healthier microbiome means your horse can extract more nutrients from feed, improving energy and overall condition.
  • Protects Gut Integrity: Supports the intestinal lining and reduces digestive disturbances, keeping your horse comfortable and performing at their best. 
  • Natural Hindgut Slow-Fermentation: Fenugreek seeds are a rich source of galactomannan, a soluble fibre that acts as a natural prebiotic. This fibre resists digestion in the upper gut and slowly ferments in the horse’s hindgut, providing a steady food source for beneficial bacteria.

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🛡️ Meriden Fusion® DYAD (Broad-Spectrum Mycotoxin Binder)

• • Broad-Spectrum Capture: Helps reduce the risk and impact of aflatoxins, fumonisins, lolitrem B, ergot alkaloids, and zearalenone.
  • Dual-Action Binding Mechanism: Pure bentonite and mannan oligosaccharides (MOS) work together to provide both physical and chemical binding of a range of toxins.
  • Ammonia-Binding Properties: Provides excellent ammonia-binding capabilities alongside selective mycotoxin mitigation while serving as an anti-caking agent.

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🧫 LEVUCELL® SB & Levucell® SC (Live Yeast Probiotics)

• LEVUCELL® SB (Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii): This specialized live yeast probiotic strain is naturally resistant to stomach acid, allowing it to survive transit through the upper gut alive. It helps consume oxygen within the digestive tract to favor beneficial bacteria while neutralizing microbial toxins like Clostridium difficile Toxin A and E. coli endotoxin. It helps support intestinal integrity by increasing crypt depth and villus height to maintain a healthy barrier. 
• LEVUCELL® SC (Saccharomyces cerevisiae): A live yeast probiotic targeted specifically at supporting a balanced hindgut environment. It helps stabilize hindgut pH and encourages the growth of vital fibre-digesting bacteria, making it exceptionally valuable for horses exposed to lush pastures, high-starch feeds, or athletic training stress.

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⛰️ Sodium Humic Acid (Earth-Based Biology Boost)

• • Flora Stabilization: Stabilizes the intestinal flora while improving protein digestion, calcium utilization, and trace element absorption.
  • Enhanced Feed Uptake: Works to increase the efficiency of all nutrition that enters your horse—including supplements, mineral licks, dry feed, and pasture—improving overall condition and local immunity.

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Pazture Mag | Magnesium and B1 for Horses

Magnesium and B1 for horses play an important role in supporting calm behaviour, healthy muscle function, focus, and relaxation.

During periods of grass growth, seasonal change, stress, or fluctuating weather conditions, some horses may become spooky, reactive, muscle sore, or difficult to handle. Pazture Mag provides highly absorbable Magnesium Aspartate and Vitamin B1 (Thiamine) to help support horses throughout the year.

These changes can occur during spring and autumn — but they can also happen at any time of the year depending on pasture conditions, workload, stress levels, and individual nutritional needs.

Pazture Mag is a daily nutritional supplement designed to support calm behaviour, muscle function, focus, and relaxation through highly absorbable magnesium and Vitamin B1 (Thiamine).

Suitable for year-round feeding, Pazture Mag is especially helpful during:

• Spring and autumn grass growth
• Rain after dry spells
• Times of stress or workload
• Horses on lush pasture
• Horses prone to tension, sensitivity, or excitability

Why Feed Magnesium and B1 to Horses?

Power Star Nutrition uses Magnesium Aspartate — commonly referred to as “organic magnesium” — which has a higher biological uptake compared to many other magnesium sources. It is also human grade quality.

Combined with Vitamin B1 (Thiamine), Pazture Mag helps support:

• Calm behaviour
• Healthy muscle function
• Relaxation
• Focus and concentration
• Muscle comfort and recovery
• Horses sensitive to seasonal pasture changes

 

Signs Your Horse May Benefit from Magnesium and B1

Your horse or pony may benefit from daily magnesium and B1 support if they:

• Become spooky or over-reactive when normally calm
• Are sensitive to sound, movement, or touch
• Hate being groomed or rugged
• Show muscle tightness, soreness, tremors, twitching, or cramping
• Lack concentration when ridden
• Have inconsistent behaviour from one ride to the next
• Become more excitable, tense, or difficult to handle
• Fatigue quickly during work
• Struggle to relax after exercise

What Does Thiamine, (Vitamin B1) Do For Horses?

Thiamine is needed for the efficient metabolism of carbohydrates, fats, and proteins. It is also critical for the processing of lactic and pyruvic acids, which contribute to "tying up" and is especially important in competition horses that are often fed large amounts of grain to support athletic ability.

Vitamin B1 may be lacking due to:

• Hard Working Horses
• Horses on high grain diets
• Horses suffering from hindgut acidosis
• Horses suffering from stress

For horses that need extra support from eating green grass and fluctuating weather conditions, Pazture Guarde is a more heavy-duty supplement fed daily. Pazture Mag can be fed with Ulzeraide Plus for grass and feed challenges.

Why feed Magnesium to Horses?

Magnesium plays an important part in nerve and muscle function. Horses who are deficient show signs of nervousness, and excitability, are jumpy, and have tight sore backs which are not related to saddle fit. They have muscle tremors and skin hypersensitivity. A magnesium-deficient horse is likely to have a poor tolerance to work, fatigue quickly, and be prone to tying up. They build up lactic acid more quickly which is why magnesium deficient horses sometimes have behavior problems. They fatigue more quickly after work and don't recover as well. When a horse gets excited, its body uses magnesium to calm down and relax. The lower the magnesium level, the lower the threshold for new stress. Magnesium deficient horses can start calm during exercise. As the session progresses, they become spookier and more stressed.

What Causes Magnesium Deficiency?

Magnesium tends to be deficient in Spring grasses due to the fast rate of growth. This is part of the reason why horses exhibit signs of Spring Flush (silly behavior), as magnesium deficiency commonly results in behavioral problems in horses.  

Horse Vitamin & Mineral Supplement for Healthy Hooves, Skin & Coat

Restore Essential Vitamins & Minerals Missing from Your Horse's Diet

 

Is Your Horse Struggling with Poor Hoof Quality, Mud Fever, or Skin Conditions?

Are your horse's hooves still cracking and brittle even though you take good care of them? Did you know, low levels of zinc and copper could be the problem? Learn how Essentials Formula 1, with selenium, can transform weak, brittle hooves into strong, resilient foundations for your horse in 6-9 months. Feeding Essentials Formula 1, daily can help prevent skin conditions like mud fever and rain scald, especially during wet conditions. This super equine vitamin, mineral, amino acid, and hoof supplement all rolled into one,  promotes a shiny coat, healthy hooves, and topline. This formula has high levels of Biotin, plus amino acids,  L-Lysine and DL-Methionine and L-Threonine. It has the correct ratio of Zinc to Copper for maximum absorption.

Signs Your Horse May Be Missing Essential Vitamins & Minerals

Then list things like:

• Poor hoof quality
• Cracking hooves
• Slow hoof growth
• Mud fever
• Rain scald
• Poor coat
• Lack of topline
• Faded coat
• Poor condition

Specifically formulated for NZ conditions and Soil types

Essentials Formula 1, provides essential nutrients lacking in many feed crops, pastures, and soil. It has no added iron, making it the perfect supplement for horses and ponies grazing on NZ pasture and drinking bore water with high iron content. Essentials Formula 1 is one of the best copper and zinc supplements for horses. Designed for horses and ponies not receiving premix feeds, or below recommended daily rate. It can also be fed when a very small amount of premix feed is fed, and daily recommended vitamin and mineral requirements are not being met. The level of selenium will generally keep the average horse or pony at current selenium levels unless the soil is fertilized with selenium prills or the pasture is high in selenium. Getting your horse's blood tested for selenium yearly is highly recommended.

Essentials Formula 1, Selenium Free is recommended when:

• Your horse or pony receives a blood test showing high selenium levels but still requires a vitamin and mineral supplement to maintain health with no selenium added.
• Is being supplemented with selenium from your veterinarian or other supplements?
• Grazing on a property that has high levels of selenium in the soil and pasture.

Equine Minerals: The Importance of Zinc, Copper, and an Iron-Free Formulation

New Zealand's pasture, hay, and feed crops have high iron levels which can reduce the availability of zinc and copper. The most common mineral imbalance in hay is too much iron combined with low zinc and copper levels. A high iron concentration can interfere with both zinc and copper absorption, making already low levels of these minerals even less available to your horse. Until recently, the veterinary industry has viewed iron toxicity in equines mainly as an acute condition—the result of overdosing on iron-containing supplements. However, researchers have found that equines exposed to high iron levels in water, grass, or hay over a prolonged period can accumulate the mineral in their livers, resulting in chronic iron overload. Black-skinned horses which include greys need more copper and zinc than others. Bays and chestnuts will look washed out with lighter colors than normal coats, and the blacks will have a definite reddish look. Horses need copper in their diets to properly utilize iron and to develop healthy connective tissue. It is also important for horses with allergies. It can lower the concentration of histamine in the body. Copper also helps to keep the central nervous system running correctly. In adult horses, a deficiency of copper and zinc in the diet may cause limb deformities, thinning of the bones, swelling of the joints, blood vessel weakness, connective tissue weakness, saggy skin, and a lowered immune system.  Copper is the main mineral for the body to produce T cells. It is also important for bone integrity, heart health, skin pigmentation, and to prevent premature graying. Horses showing signs of low iron levels can be supplemented according to veterinary instructions. When copper deficiency occurs, iron levels fall too short, and anemia can develop.

Avoid Added Iron

Avoid vitamin and mineral supplements for horses that contain added iron as an ingredient. Horses typically obtain more than enough iron from their diet, and excess intake could have negative health consequences. Products with added iron will have one of the following ingredients listed on the label:

• iron oxide
• ferrous furmate
• ferrous sulfate
• ferrous gluconate

Magnesium

It does not contain Magnesium. Magnesium requirements are individual and a different magnesium product like Pazture Guarde or Pazture Mag can be added separately.

Vitamin E

Most grazing horses receive natural vitamin E from fresh pasture. Essentials Formula 1 is therefore formulated to complement pasture diets by supplying key trace minerals such as zinc, copper and selenium that are often low or poorly absorbed in New Zealand soils.” Vitamin E is not included in Essentials Formula 1 mineral/vitamin mixes because it oxidizes very quickly when added to feeds or multi-ingredient supplements. For this reason, it is more effective to supplement Vitamin E separately to ensure its benefits are fully realised. “Vitamin E is naturally supplied when horses consume fresh green pasture.”

NZ Natural Zeolite

Essentials Formula 1 and 2 contain NZ natural Zeolite in the form of Optimate, an ACVM-registered toxin binder. This is a highly bioavailable natural form of silica that supports bone and connective tissue health. Performance horses and senior horses may especially benefit from Zeolite.

Are you looking for a way to improve your horse's hoof health?

Essentials Formula contains high levels of  Biotin. Each 22.5-gram scoop contains 15mg of biotin. This sulphur-containing B vitamin is essential for healthy hoof growth and plays a role in hoof horn quality and hoof wall strength. Biotin supplementation has become increasingly popular in recent years, as it can help correct biotin deficiencies, improve hoof hardness, and promote overall hoof health.

Features:

🐎 Essential for healthy hoof growth: Biotin is an essential coenzyme in the metabolism of carbohydrates, protein and fat, enabling support of growth, performance work and reproduction. 💪 Improves hoof hardness: Biotin is used in supplements to improve the quality of the horse’s hoof and is also beneficial to the coat. 🦄 Promotes overall hoof health: By using a biotin supplement in your horse’s feed, it can help promote strong, healthy hoof horn growth.

How it works:

Biotin should be fed to horses needing to improve poor hoof horn and develop healthy hooves. It acts as an essential coenzyme in the metabolism of carbohydrates, protein, and fat and so enables support of growth, performance work, and reproduction. Biotin is particularly important for normal thyroid and adrenal gland function.